Clasping-band.



UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1908.

, Application filed March 7,1996 Serialfl'o. 304,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Snvsnnv M. DANIEL SEN, of Escanaba, in the county of Delta and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasping-Bands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sleeping-bands for binding a paper, cloth, or other covering upon iars, especially butter jars or crooks.

The ob'ect of the invention is to provide an improve clasping-band which may be applied quickly and readily fastened tight and which can be readily removed and replaced and used repeatedly and which also serves conveniently for carrying the jar with a bail also, to provide such a device at relatively small expense of manufacturers.

Dairymen and those interested in packing butter in jars for shipment have much difliculty in keeping covers on the jars when tied down with strings, which is the best method heretofore known, so far as I am aware. This invention is intended to improve upon this method in the manner stated above.

The objects of the invention are accom plished by providing a metallic band, having at one end several chain-links and at the other end a hook adapted to hook into one of said chain-links.

An important feature is a sliding buckle which when opened enlarges the band and allows it to slip over the rim or flange of a jar and when closed forms a mechanical device to tighten it.

In the preferred form the shank of the hook consists of a straight piece of wire, said wire being bent sidewise where attached to the band to form a notch and a side member which slides through a loop in the band when the clasp is released. The other end of said side member is connected to the shank by bracing means which serve as a handle, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the device in elevation applied to a 'ar. Fig. 2 shows the device itself removed cm a jar. Fig. 3 shows a modification.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the band, which is preferably made of steel wire, but may, if desired, be of some other material or shape. This band is adapted to encircle the top of a jar 2 under the rim 3 thereof, and in Fig. 1 this rim is represented as covered by a cloth or paper covering 4. Loops 5 are twisted in this wire at points which are approximately diametrically opposite, and a bail 6 is fastened therein, whereby the jar may be carried. The band terminates at one end in several links 7 of a chain and at the other end terminates in a loose hook 8, which has a shank portion 9, at the end of which is bent a notch or crook 10, adapted to engage in hole or loop 11, formed in the adjacent end of the wire band. When clasped in use the tension of the band runs through the band portion 1, loop 11, shank 9, hook 8, and links 7. By reason of the links 7 the length of the band is adjustable to fit different sizes of jars, the hook 8 being fastened in whichever one of the links 7 is required to make the entire band of proper circumference. If by experiment it is proven that the band will be too tight with one link and not tight enough if hooked into its neighboring link, a plug 12, of wood or other suitable material, may be inserted under the bond between the links and the jar, and then clasping the band incloses the 'ar and plug together. This makes the ban. ti ht, as the plug may be of any suitable size. he claspin device will now be further described. T e wire 9 of the shank after being bent to form the notch 10 continues in a direction substantiall r at right angles to the shank 9, forming a s iding member 13, and is then bent a sin substantially at right angles to a direction parallel with the shank 9, forming one side 14, and again at right angles forming another side 15 of a. rectangle, having a loop 16 hooked permanently upon the shank 9, near to the book 8. In the corner between 18 and 14 another notch (marked 17) may be formed.

hen clasped, the side 9 forms part of the band, and sides 13, 14, and 15 of the rectangle hang down and lie flat against the jar, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. To unclasp the band, the rectangle is gras ed by the side 14 and swung upward about t e hook 8 as a center, throwing the notch 10 to the positions indicated by dotted lines. The loop 11 then slips out of the notch 10, slips along the side 13 into the corner 17 of the rectangle. When in this position, the band is enlarged by substantially the difference in length between the length of one side 9 of the rectangle and the length of its dia onal, and this distance is augmented a little y the depth of the notch 17. The hook 8 may now be loosened from the link 7 and the band removed from the jar. To place the band upon a jar, the clasp should be placed with its corner 17 in loop 11, the band encircling the jar. The hook 8 should. be hooked into the tightest fitting of the links 7. Then by grasping the portion 14 of the clasp the clasp may be swung downward. Loop 11 will slip into notch 10, and the line of strain comes in a strai ht line through the shank 9. The rectangu ar form of the clasp, especially the portion 15, which is fastened. to the shank at 16, braces the rectangle so that it is not apt to be bent out of shape, as if the member 15 were missing. No matter how great the tension upon the clasp when fastened the clas cannot yield, stretch, 0r enlarge under suc 1 tension because the stress is applied to the clasp in the form of a tension exerted longitudinally on a straight member 9. It is assumed, of course, that the wire is still enough to prevent the notch 10 and the hook 8 from bendin Any jar may be fitted Wlti a bail by applying this clasping-band, and by the same act a cloth or paper cover may be made fast over the top of such jar, or either of these objects may be accomplished without the other.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 a straight bracing member 14 is substituted for the two members 14 15 of Figs. 1 and 2. This form has the advantages that the bracing effect is stronger and that a little less wire is required.

I clain1- A band, having a series of links at one end and ahook at the other end adapted to engage one of the links, in combination with a sliding buckle forming part of the band, having one side thereof in the line of tension when the band is taut, and slidable sidewise out of the line of tension to relax the band.

In testimony whereof I have allixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SEVERIN M. DANIELSEN.

Witnesses T. B. WHITE, EDNA L. GATES. 

